Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
The law has no power over heroes.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.